Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 Make up a table like the one shown . |
| 2 | Some build up a sense of foreboding that is either confirmed or denied , some make us laugh all the way through , some seem written only to outrage . |
| 3 | In 1781 the French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a catalogue of them , containing over a hundred entries , not because he was interested in them ( quite the contrary ! ) but because he was a comet-hunter , and he was persistently misled by fuzzy objects which looked like comets but which were not . |
| 4 | It was a lovely sight to see all the sleeping hens on their perch and exciting to open up the door in the morning to find they had laid eggs for our breakfast in the three nest boxes on the floor . |
| 5 | This uses up the energy of the photon , so it is absorbed . |
| 6 | Does this sum up the kind of house you want , or have I missed something ? |
| 7 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 8 | This shows up the reason for this tough line which , unfortunately , is no longer the stance that the Court of Appeal now unequivocally adopts . |
| 9 | This conjures up the picture of Thomas the disciple who refused to believe that Jesus was alive again after being killed and buried unless he could see with his own eyes the evidence of the injuries Jesus 's body had received . |
| 10 | Island-hopping by coconut timber dhotis is the way the natives travel ; for guests to the Maldives this opens up a world of coves gently lapped by crystal-clear waters , underwater coral mazes and watersporting opportunities — alternatives to basking on the shores of an isolated stretch of sand . |
| 11 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 12 | This opens up the route for having a company a partner and allocating to the company partner such share of the profits as the partners think appropriate in each year . |
| 13 | This opens up the possibility of negotiations between the Commission and the parties concerned and the Commission has shown itself willing to resolve cases on the basis of undertakings in [ two ] of the [ five ] proceedings it has brought to date . |
| 14 | If the performance can be staged specially for video , this opens up the possibility of bringing in extra lamps and interrupting the action at agreed points to shift the lighting round to suit the camera . |
| 15 | If the marker uses semi-standard annotations ( e.g. ‘ Style-sheet not used : … ‘ ) , this opens up the possibility of writing a checking program that analyses the annotations in some marked work and checks whether the mark suggested by the annotations is seriously out of line with the given mark . |
| 16 | This opens up the prospect of developing the preliminary work done by Zamecnick , Stephenson and others into a general strategy for anti-viral therapy . |
| 17 | It is not very good , you see , on Government responsibility and this takes up a lot of time . |
| 18 | This throws up a wealth of stems furnished with palish green leaves , comprised of lance-shaped leaflets , above which rise erect plumes of minute flowers , closely packed along the stems like pearls . |
| 19 | Side by side with this grew up a number of smaller specialised departments — a bureau des fonds which dealt with the ministry 's own internal finances , the surveillance of foreigners in France , questions of diplomatic privilege and a wide variety of other relatively minor issues ; a bureau des interprètes which took shape in the 1750s and 1760s and was given definitive form in 1768 ; a department concerned with codes and cyphers ; and a geographical one which by the 1780s had a remarkable collection of about 10,000 maps . |
| 20 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 21 | A particular field in one table can appear in another table , even if everything else in the second table is different ; this sets up a relationship between the tables — hence the name — which can be exploited by the database manager . |
| 22 | Unfortunately one was having its innards repaired at the time and another gave up the ghost after operating for all of a second . |
| 23 | This summed up the view of many : in previous decades intellectuals were frequently punished for being politically ‘ reactionary ’ , i.e. rightists . |
| 24 | Ltd. but returned in 1903 to take up an appointment as chief chemist in their Salamander works in Riga . |
| 25 | The descriptions of the author 's visits from one bureaucrat after another take up the bulk of No Breathing Room . |
| 26 | GORDON TAYLOR , the players ' union secretary , yesterday confirmed that he is still prepared to take up the post of chief executive of the Football League -despite a cold-shoulder from the League 's management committee and the reluctance of the Professional Footballers ' Association to release him . |
| 27 | He had wanted Lesley to have an abortion , but because he feels committed to Lesley he is prepared to bring up the baby as if she were his own . |
| 28 | A Bundestag ( lower house of federal parliament ) debate on March 12 set up a commission of inquiry into the former East German regime . |
| 29 | Yet schools are prepared to tie up the time of senior staff , in effect the resource equivalent of at least a full-time head of department post , with the vaguest responsibilities for taking difficult pupils away from classrooms . |
| 30 | Lefevre spent much of his time standing about in the street outside the theatre to no avail , whilst Thiercelin wasted a day and a half following up a couple of false trails supplied by articles in the local newssheet . |